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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
A Congressman Abroad.

l heard a good story to-day about
an ex-congressman from New Jersey
who recently made a tour through
Europe with party of friends. When
he got to Paris he sought out the Amer
lean legation and burst in on the sec
retary in charge at the time, in a tow
ering rage.
He complained to the secretary in
very violent language that he had been
robbed by the railway officials. They
had refused to let him or his party out
at the depot when they arrived in
Paris, without the payment of very
considerable number of francs. He
thought it an outrage that a distin-
guished American or his friends could
not travel through France without
paying tribute to brigands. He wanted
the secretary of the legation to write
at once to the president of the railway
demanding the instant return of the
money he had been unwarrantably
compelled to pay.
Tell him who l am" he said, land
he'll come down promptly with the
ducats-francs, | mean"
Then the secretary, first soothing
him with sympathetic expressions,
drew from him some facts which he
had omitted to state.
Yes, he had surrendered his railway
ticket. His friends had surrendered
theirs.
And yes, he had received small
piece of green paper i'll exchange.
Yes, it had some printing on it, but
it was French nonsense of some sort
gibberish; he couldn't make head or
tail of it.
what did you do with itP" asked
the secretary.
"Why, l threw it out of the win
dow" he replied. Il didn't want it;
some French trash, anyway. Then,
when got to Paris, and we started to
walk out of the depot, Just as we do at
home, by George! they stopped us, and
wouldn't let us 90 out because we
didn't have that Internal piece of green
paper.
1T took me half an hour to find out
what they wanted, for none of them
could speak English, and | couldn't
understand their gibberish. But l
finally made out that they wanted that
piece of paper or the money | told you
about | saw there was no other way
out, so l handed over the money"
The secretary understood it all then.
He told the distinguished son of New
jersey that he would make the re-
quired demand upon the railway COM
pany at once, and so sent him happily
to his hotel.
Then he sat down and made the best
story he could out of it, in a letter to
the president of the railway.
The latter replied in a politely sar-
castle note, inclosing the money in
question, expressing his regret at the
occurrence, and winding up with an
expression of his sympathy with the
constituency represented in the Amer
lean congress by such a man as the
statesman from New jersey.
The secretary of legation, of course,
returned the money with the express
sion Of regret, but not with the ex-
preston of sympathy. : Rbilade!Dtia
Record.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
wnere irving Is Buried.

From a paper by Clarence Cook,
accompanied by a protrait, in the Cen
tury, we quote as follows: Il confess
heard not without secret pleasure
that the relic-hunters so chip and ham,
mer the stone that marks Irving's
grave as to make its frequent renewal
necessary. 1t did not seem to me a
grievous wrong, nor in any true sense
proclamation of the grave, but rather
testimony TO the lovableness of Irv-
ing's character, and an evidence of the
wide extent of his fame, that, from
filling the circle of the educated and
refined among his countrymen, has
now come to include that lower
stratum of our common humanity
which has only instructive and, so to
speak, mechanical ways of expressing
its feelings.
1T would not have been easy to find
place more in harmony with the
associations that gather about Irving's
name as a writer than the spot in
which he is buried. Even to-day, with
all the changes that have been brought
about by the growth of the neighbor-
ing settlement, the spirit of peace and
quiet that used to brood over the
region hovers there undisturbed. Irv-
ing's own words, in the Legend of
Sleepy Hollow describing the grave
yard, the old church, and the stream
that plays about its feet, reflect with
the faithfulness of mirror the scene
as we behold it to-day.
Here is the church, a small build
ing with rough sides of the country
stone, surmounted by picturesque
roof, and with an open bell-turret over
which still veers the vane pierced with
the initials of the Vrederick Felypsen
who built the church and endowed it
in 1899. In our rambles about the
graveyard we used to find the bricks
of light-colored clay, brought from
Holland, and of which, so tradition
said, the church had been originally
built, or which had, at any rate, been
largely used in its construction.
The church was seldom used, ex-
cept in the summertime. On COM
munion Sundays the handsome seven
teenth-century Jacobcan table of oak
brought from Holland, where plenty
like it may still be found, was set out,
as it is to-day, with the plain vessels
of silver presented by Queen Anne,
as the formula goes, that used to
please my childish taste for things that
had about them the flavor of old DAYS.
The same budding taste for antiqui-
ties led me and some of my school
mates to the old graveyard, where we
hunted up the oldest tombstones,
scraping off the moss and lichens to
decipher the names and dates, and en-
joying many laugh over their carved
ornaments, scrolls, and cockle-shells,
and sturdy, dew-lapped, Dutch cher
ubs, with their stumpy little wings
scored like checker-boards for plum
age. Many of these grave-stones were
said to have been imported from Hol-
land by the early settlers, like the
bricks Of which the church was built,
the table in the church, and much of
the furniture to be found in the farm
houses of the countryside, chairs aud
tables, cupboards, and even looking
glasses. The carvings, memorial YER
ses, and scripture-teXts upon these
tOmbstones were cut by the more skill
full workmen overseas, and the names
and dates were filled in here at home
as occasion called"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
After the Wedding.

All alone in my room al last!
| wonder how far they have Travelled now?
They'll be very far when the night is past,
And so would j. If knew but how.
How calm she WAS. with her saint-ike face!
Her eyes are yiOet-mine are blue.
How careless ] am with my mothers lace!
Her hands are whittier and softer, too,
They have gone to the city beyond the hills;
They must never come back TO this place
again.
I'm almost afraid TO sit here so still;
| wish 1t would thunder and lightning and
rain.
Oh, no! for some one may not be at rest;
Some one, perhaps, is travelling tonight
| hope that the moon may shine instead
And heaven be starry and earth all bright.
1t is only one summer that shes been here;
1t has been my home for seventeen years.
And seventeen summers Of happy bloom
Fail dead tonight in a rain of tears.
1t is dark. all dark in the midnight shades;
Father in heaven, may ! have restr
One hour Of rest for this aching headI
For this throbbing heart in my weary
breastf
loved him more than she understands;
For him | prayed for my soul in truth;
For him am kneeling with lifted hands
To lay at his feet my shattered youth.
/ loved, and | loye-I love him still
More than father. mother or life
My hope of hope was to bear his name,
My heaven OF heavens TO be his wife!
His wife!-the name that Angels breathe
1he words shall not crimson my cheek with
shame:
'TwouId have been my glory that name to
wreathe
In the princely heart from whence it came;
And the KISS gave to the bride tonight
His bride till life and light grow dim
God only knows how i pressed her lips,
That the kiss to her be given 10 him!
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
NapOleOn's Legacy to France.

Between 1904 and 1915 he has had
slaughtered more than LOO, 900
Frenchmen born within the boundaries
of ancient France, to which must be
added, probably, 100000 of men born
out of these limits, and all for him,
under the title of allies, or slain on his
account, under the title of enemies.
All that the poor, enthusiastic, and
credulous Gauls have gained by con-
tiding their public welfare to him is
two invasions; all that he bequeaths 10
them as a reward for their deYot'~a
after this prodigous vast &c III. III
blood and the blood - thu u unei, l
na"iIinoa go 0itp' l - fifteen departments
Sodo''uN Dy the public, deprived of
~, the left bank of the Rhine, and
of Belgium, despoiled of the northeast
angle by which it completed its bound
aries, fortified its most vulnerable point,
and, using the words of Vauban, made
the field squares" losing four millions
of new Frenchmen which it had as
simulated after twenty years of life in
common; and, worse still, thrown back
within the frontiers of 1889, alone
diminished in the midst Of its aggrand-
lied neighbors, suspected by all
Europe, and lastingly surrounded by a
threatening circle of distrust and ran
cor.-H. Tame, IN Ne10 Princeton Re
CieW.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

A new industry is being established
in South Staffordshire, England, in
connection with the steel trade A
complete plant has Just been laid down
at the works of the Staffordshire Steel
and Iron Ingot company, Bilston, for
the grinding of basic Stag for agri-
cultural fertilizing purposes. A Stag
house, 40 feet long by 80 feet, has
been built for the accommodation of
grinding machinery. The process is
divided into three stages. The last
completely pulverizes the Stag, making
it of such tineness that it will pass
through a mesh of ten thousand holes
to the square inch. The Stag, being
composed of forty per cent. of lime
and from 10 to 20 per cent. OF phos-
phoric acid, its value as an agricul-
tural fertilizer is becoming increas-
ingly appreciated.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
A Small BIunder.

A lady, on the lookout for a steady
nurse-girl to take charge of the chill
dren, entered a servants registry,
where her eyes fell on a respectable
young woman from Normandy, who
looked the very picture of health Il
like your appearance, said madame,
''but tell me why you left your former
situation" "a simple oversight,
ma'am. One day as | was nursing
Mrs. Is baby, L looked out of a
window to listen to man who was
singing in the yard, Mrs. L gave
me twopence to throw down to him,
but alas! instead of the money /
dropped the child out of the window"
lie GT'eLOt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
. Charles Reade in his memoirs saws

Charles Reade in his memoirs SAYS
of Ellen Terry: ELLEN Terry is an
gma. Her eyes are pale, her nose
rather long, her mouth nothing par
ticular, complexion a delicate brick
dust, her hair rather like tow. Yet,
somehow, she is beautiful. Her ex-
preston kills any pretty face you see
beside her. Her figure is lean and
bony, her hand masculine in size and
form. Yet she is a pattern of fawn-
like grace. Whether in movement 1r
in repose, grace pervades tLe hnssv
In character impulsire, intelligent
Meah; t hyStefloal-;-in short, all that is
aooli'lha and charming IN woman.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
IS CONSUMPTION INCURABLE

Read the following: Mr.. G. Fl. Nor
ris, Newark, Ark. says: "Was down
with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an Incurable
Consumptive. Began taking DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. am
now on my third bottle, and able to
oversee the work on my farm. 1t is the
finest medicine ever made"
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, SAYS:
''Had it not been for DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption I would have
died of Lung Troubles. Was given up
by doctors. Am now in best of health, -
Try it. Sample bottle free at Henry
Hinrichs Drug Store. s.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

A student in the Yale law school en-
gagged for two meals day in a New
Haven boarding house and then made
such havoc at the table that the land
lady watched him and caught him in
the act of pocketing bread, cake, cold
meat, butter and pickles.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

The partnership heretofore existing between
Frank Zem8n and John krainik carry ing on the
business of dealers in lumber II. the city of Man
itowoc, Wis. was dissolved by mutual consent
on April Srd 1881 The books of the late firm viii
remain at the Office until April 80. Al accounts
not settled by that time will be placed in the
hands Of an attorney for collection. All bills
against the late firm will be settled at the office
FRANK ZE1IAN
JoHN hRAISIK
Mauitoyoc Wis, April g. 1887.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

The editor of the Muddy Fork (Ark.
Bugle says: 1T is our intention to
make the Bugle the great literary and
political journal of the west, which we
can not do as long as we have to print
our paper on hand press turned by
our wife, as we dc now.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

Word has been received at La Crosse
that John G. Beatty, formerly of that
city, was drowned at Cedar Rapids, la.
Beatty is son-in law of DIR. Reed. He
was a member of the Order of Chosen
Friends and his family will receive So, 900.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
FOR SALE.

The undersigned offers for sale a farm con-
tanning 60 acres Of land situated in the town OF
Cato. and described as follows: NWs NV =
Sec. -. Town 49, Range - containing 40 acres;
and M SWs NWs. same town. range and
section. containing 20 acres. For further IN
formation apply to MRS. c. KENDALL,
feblS Frankfort. Mich.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
jealousy Guarded Trade Sec-ets.

One has chance to study a GOOD
many quaint trades in this land of
1.-The Fair God" though the real Sc
crets OF their arts are jealously guarded
by the Mexieans, having been handed
down through successive generations
from Indian ancestors who practiced
them centuries before the coming of
Cortez. Among the most curious is
the pottery-making, in which the ma
tive ''throwers, or molders, by mere
twist of the hand. a turn of the wrist,
or a twirl of the fingers, form the
yielding clay into the oldest shapes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
j. D. MARKHAM,

A TTORNEY AND COUNS ELOR AT LAW
n Office, in TOrrIsons Brick Block, Eighth
street, Nanltoyoc, Wisconsin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

The Viennese statistician has been
al work, and computes that Liszts
compositions number 1,122.
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VIM. RAHR'S SONS.

DREWER AND MASTER. CORNER SIXTH
ID and Washington streets, South side. The
1ighest cash price paid for Barley.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
Ma CH & NASH

A TTORNEYS AND NDCOUSSELORs AT LAW
N Offce over First National Bank, Eighth St
Collections promptly attended TO.
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G.. G. SFDGWICK,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
n Office in TOrrisou's brick block, north END
sth street bridge, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Collec
ions promptly attended TO.
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N ii w
N ID w
MEAT MARKET 7
JOHN PITT, Proprietor.
York Street, between 7th and 9Th.

Ihaveopened a new MeatMarket. Yorkstreet
where shall keep constantly on hand all kinds OF
fresh meats. BY fair dealing and ust weight hope
10 receive q share ofyour patronage.
iunqq-I2m JOHN PITT.
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F. S. LUHMANN. NJ. D..

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE AT
Residence Of Dr.. F. Simon, Hancock street,
near the court house, Manitowoc, Wis. del5
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G.. A. FORREST,

]. TToRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law.
a Oflcc IN Ce-Cs' Block, first floor, IN door
leading 10 County Judges office. South klghth
Street, aanitcwoc, Wiz. Collections promptly
attended to. Ju'-V
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
JAMES KEOGH, Jr.,
STURGEON BAY, WIS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT and MONEY BROKER

Has improved farms and wild lands for sale
Particular attention given TO placing farm loans,
and when desired, prompt payment OF interest
will be guaranteed to lenders. aug26-S7
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CHAS. FL. SEEGER.

nENTIST. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
ID sons Block, Corner South Eighth and Quay
Streets Manitowoc, Wis. Prompt attention viii
be given TO all work entrusted 20 me. apr2l-Sl
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Miss Braddon can claim her Jubilee.
6he Is publishing her fftisth voIuuzR
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TERMS, TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR
DR LOUIS FALGE.
NICHOLAS MICKERT.

OFFICE at Dr. Pritchard's and near Esch's
store, south side. Aleoo'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

CSurplus on n. Y. Standard, A. per
ceut. interest, ST, ,495. .329. 30.)
Surplus over Liabilities, on every stand
ard of valuation, larger than that Of
any other life assurance company
New Assurance in 1888, 3 96OII 37s. 90
Outstanding Assurance, 357 33S DAG O q
Total Paid Poiicv-Hoidcrs in 1885 7l3S $50 O5
Paid Policy Holders since organiz'n ss,2I1175,G3
Income, lO,5aOU5312
improvement during the year.
Increase OF Premium Income, sl42L2lQG m
Increase Of surplus, 3S7s 90 on
Increase Ut Assets. aqI iG1 on
New assurance wilton in 1883, tho laroas- brs.
mess ever Transact. q by TIE 6 .ctei-, r by auy
other com yaHv in sfu 1r year: rt, i.r mess 81
lSSi three millions on ct ta0 uf 1852: and thar of
1883. eleven millions over that oflss4.
Assurance written by the society duriur tbc
twenty-SlN y,ar- aud half Of it- history Slu5.-
gl-,lJO more taan any other conlgen, has written.
during the same period
The Society issues plain and simple contract
ofGEsUraHCc free from burdeuso.uo and t.ri,irsI
conditions. and II C0NTESIAhI.E nftrr thrrr
years. All Policies, ae suol rs thu~ hrrome in
cohtest&Jte, are payable NEE5aTrLI upou
the receipt r.. satisfactory proof Of death.
ihercby Ger in, Uat after 15ersoa.
dt er0nliRHti0R of the iaUcsfntcnfs G,ld
accounts oftbc Society, 7 Jf,,d tie fore
go1'lg conaten2cd statemeat thereof to be
correct mud true.
John 4, " can. r., ComptroUer.
Fer Spl- particulars. -co toe 2czh an
AuS- statement cf tIae Society.
BuRToS y TUEBRLL. GenI Agents for W,sr,n.
sill aud NoTrLern Michigan. JosIAH Il RFIELD,
Cashier. 4Js Milwaukee 81, Milwaukee. Mis-
4. Z. JoNEs, Sr" ciG.i Agent,
dec3e hANIrO"OC, WIS
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A Port Jervis dealer announces
"Fresh MAPLE chuGar for Sail"

Mrs. Langtry will pass the summer
In the I osemte valley.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02
WILLIAMS HOUSE.

A d JOHNSTON, PROPRIETOR, Corner OF
N. Eighth and Franklin streets, Manitowoc.
A frst-class American Hotel, centrally located,
offers every induCement to the travelling public.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-02

NOTARY PUBLIC AND MONEY BROKER.
y Legal papers drawn and money loaned on
GOOD security, Manitowoc. Wis.
Office west of Manitowoc Savings Bank.
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SCRMITZ & KIR w AN,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE IN FRANZ :
a BLOCK, South Eighth Street, Manitowoc
WISCONSIN,. [mayll
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s. SANDERSON

MANUFACTURERS DEALERIN BOOTS
Nl Shoes Leather, &C., &C. Shop on Buffalo
street, near the corner of Eighth. Repairing
neatlH and nromptlY executed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-16
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Philadelphia Republicans Elect Candidates
by 1000 to 81, 900 Majority.

Philadelphia Republicans Elect Candidates
by 1000 to 35 900 Majority.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 15.-Great interest was
manifested in the municipal election here to-
day. The officials chosen will enter upon their
duties under the new law known as the Bulltt
bill, which provides sweeping changes in the va
rious departments of the city. The Democrats
experienced considerable difficulty in completing
their ticket. Their first NOMINEES declined The
party nominated for mayor G. B. Kem, who
three years ago was elected sheriff on the Repub-
lcan ticket; Charles Benton for receiver of taxes
and G. w. Arundel, for city solicitor. The
Republican ticket is Edwin H. Filter for
Mayor, Henry Clay for receiver of taxes. and
Charles ". Warwick the present incumbent
for city solicitor. Neither ticket was entirely
satisfactory, and the papers were not united in
the support of their party candidates. the re-
suit being large amount OF scratching. The
city. on straight party vote, !s Republican by
from Is. 600 to 25,000 Returns from fourteen of
(Republican) for Mayor, a majority of II, 293,
and Clay (Republican), for receiver of taxes
1878 Careful estimates at midnight place
Filters majority at $4,000; Clays at 5000 to
10000 Warwick lRepubican), for city solic-
itor, is running ahead of the ticket and will
probably have between 10000 and $4,000 ma
jority. Owing to the extensive scratching, the
returns are coming in slowly
Complete returns from twenty-nine wards,
and estimates of the remaining two give Filter,
for Mayor, nearly %, 600 majority; Clay. for re-
cever of taxes. 1000; Warwick, for city solicitor,
probably 30. .0CO majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-16
RARLEM COMMONS CLAIMANTS.
Fourteen Hundred Alleged Heirs File Bill
in Equity-What They Expect to Secure.

New YORK, Feb. 15-The Harlem Commons
claimants, about whom SO much has been writ
ten in the last few years. have at last begun the
legal contest for the recovery Of the property
which they claim to own in the upper part OF
this city. stupendous bill in equity was fled
il the United States Circuit Court Nate on Sat
urday, by James McCreery, of Pittsburg. repre-
sentng Simon p. Morgan, of Greensboro KY,
the complainant, and about fourteen hundred
other alleged heirs, scattered all over thc coun-
try. Mr.. Morgan selected complainant
because, it is claimed, he Is one of the most
direct heirs Of the original owners The name
Of the Rev. W. r. Covert, of Pittsburg, the
attorney, in fact, of Mr.. Morgan, appears on the
bill, but the lawyers in the case are Mr.. Nc
>Creery. Judge Bredin, of Pittsburg, and Fred
erck Baker, of this city. The first argument
will be made before Judge Wallace Feb IS,
by which time il is expected the defendants will
also appear Mr. McCreery thinks that by the
time the proposed commission has completed Its
work and Gifted out the real heirs, the number
Of claimants will be reduced nearly two-thirds
The lawyers are to get one-third of ell that is
realized. They expect to get enough out OF the
case to pay them handsomely for their tr0nhle
and give each claimant about ten thousand dol
lars It is no. expected that any of the suits
will be brought to trial compromise, it il
thought, will be effected in all cases